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Prof.dr. Jos de Mul (1956) is professor in Philosophical Anthropology and its History at Erasmus School of Philosophy. He studied Philosophy in Utrecht and Amsterdam (MA in 1981, cum laude) and in 1993 he obtained his PhD (cum laude) at the University of Nijmegen with a thesis in which he reconstructed Wilhelm Dilthey’s Kritik der historischen Vernunft [Critique of historical Reason]. He has joined Erasmus School of Philosophy since 1988.

De Mul’s research focuses on the (partly overlapping) domains of philosophical anthropology, philosophy of art and culture, and the philosophy of information and communication technologies. He has published twenty books and more than two hundred twenty academic articles and…

Prof.dr. Jos de Mul (1956) is professor in Philosophical Anthropology and its History at Erasmus School of Philosophy. He studied Philosophy in Utrecht and Amsterdam (MA in 1981, cum laude) and in 1993 he obtained his PhD (cum laude) at the University of Nijmegen with a thesis in which he reconstructed Wilhelm Dilthey’s Kritik der historischen Vernunft [Critique of historical Reason]. He has joined Erasmus School of Philosophy since 1988.

De Mul’s research focuses on the (partly overlapping) domains of philosophical anthropology, philosophy of art and culture, and the philosophy of information and communication technologies. He has published twenty books and more than two hundred twenty academic articles and book contributions. He also contributes on regular basis to leading national quality newspapers and weekly’s in The Netherlands, such as Trouw, de Volkskrant, NRC Handelsblad and Vrij Nederland. His work has been published and/or translated in more than a dozen languages. His monographs include Romantic Desire in (Post)Modern Art and Philosophy (State University of New York Press, 1999), The Tragedy of Finitude. Dilthey’s Hermeneutics of Life (Yale University Press, 2004), Cyberspace Odyssey (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010), and Destiny Domesticated. The Rebirth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Technology (State University of New York Press, 2014). Volumes (co-)edited by De Mul include Plessners’s Philosophical Anthropology. Perspectives and Prospects (Amsterdam University Press, 2012) and Playful Identities. The Ludification of Digital Media Cultures (Amsterdam University Press, 2015).

So far, he has been quite successful in the acquisition of research funds (e.g. the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), Australian Research Council, Cassirer Foundation, and Dutch Foundation for Literature). So far, De Mul supervised 30 successfully completed PhD theses, while 13 other PhD projects are running.

Het has been visiting professor at several prestigious international universities, such as the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2007-2008), Fudan University in Shanghai (2008), and Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto (2016), and visiting fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is member of the editorial board of many (inter)national journals and book series, and has been member and chair of various program committees of the Netherlands Organization of Scientific Research (NWO)Â and (international) quality assessment committees. De Mul was President of the International Association of Aesthetics (IAA) and vice-president of the International Helmuth Plessner Gesellschaft. In 1994 he was awarded a national Praemium Erasmianum Research Prize for his dissertation De tragedie van de eindigheid. Dithey’s hermeneutiek van het leven, and in 2003 he received the Socratesbeker for the most urgent, innovative and exciting philosophy book published in 2002, for his book Cyberspace odyssee.

J. de Mul (2017). Oscar and Erica. On almost living bodies, new media aesthetics, and the East-West divide. In Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Aesthetics (pp. 64-69). Seoul: Seoul National University

J. de Mul (2017). From Yijing to Hypermedia: Some Notes on Computer-mediated Literary Theory and Criticism. In P. Feng (Ed.), Aesthetics and Contemporary Art. International Yearbook of Aesthetic. Volume 16 (pp. 114-125). Beijing: Beijing University

J. de Mul (2016). From Yijing to Hypermedia: some notes on computer-mediated Literary theory and criticism. In P. Feng (Ed.), Aesthetics and Contemporary Art. International Yearbook of Aesthetic (16) (pp. 114-125). Beijing: Beijing University

J. de Mul (2015). Database Identity: Personal and Cultural Identity in the Age of Global Datafication. In W. de Been & P. Aurora (Eds.), Crossroads in New Media, Identity and Law. The Shape of Diversity to Come. Personal and Cultural Identity in the Age of Global Datafication (pp. 97). New York: Palgrave Macmillan

J. de Mul (2006). Keuzedelirium: over de paradox van de keuzevrijheid. In V. Bekkers (Ed.), Wil de burger wel kiezen? Over keuzevrijheid in de gezondheidszorg en de energiemarkt (pp. 17-25). Rotterdam: Center for Public Innovation

J. de Mul (2005). Intercultural vibrations and post-historical sensations. Pre-modern, modern and post-modern traditions in the age of globlisation. In chen wangheng (Ed.), Beauty & the way of modern life (pp. 40-48). Whuan University Press

J. de Mul (1996). Poet after the Death of God. In I. van der Cruysse & W.Z. Shetter (Eds.), Contemporary Explorations in the Culture of the Low Countries (pp. 49-68). Lanham: University Press of America

J. de Mul (1995). Imagination without strings. A Virtual Look in the Future of the Visual Arts. In L. Moreva & I. Yevlampiev (Eds.), Paradigms of Philosophizing. Second International Conference on Philosophy and Culture (pp. 246-252). St. Petersburg: Russian Academy of Sciences

J. de Mul (2014, augustus 20). Lost in translation? Conference on the Chinese translations of the works of Jos de Mul. Jinan University, Guangzhou: Academic Hall, With contributions of Mai Yongxiong, Huang Hanping, Wei Chaoyong and Jos de Mul.

J. de Mul (2013, juli 23). RayFish Footwear, or the age of the biotechnological sublime. Krakow, 19th International Congress of Aesthetics, Jagiellonian University.

J. de Mul (2013, juni 28). Playful Identities: From Narrative to Ludic Self-Construction. Groningen, Lecture and chair of the Playful Identities Panel at the international conference Paul Ricoeur and the Future of the Humanities.University of Groningen.

J. de Mul (2013, januari 25). Database Identity. Rotterdam, Keynote lecture at the international conference The Shape of Diversity to Come: Global Community, Global Archipelago, or a New Civility? Erasmus University Rotterdam, J.

J. de Mul (2012, april 20). Paniek in de polder. Zwolle, Filosofisch Cafe.

J. de Mul (2012, december 1). Popular culture in the age of digital recombination. Bratislava, Keynote lecture at the conference Aesthetics of popular culture. Organized by the Academy of Fine Arts and Design Bratislava, and the Aalto University, Finland.

J. de Mul (2012, oktober 22). Information hunters in the newest stone age. Kaifeng, Guest lecture at the School of Journalism and Communication, Henan Universtiy.

J. de Mul (2012, oktober 20). Literary theory in the age of hypermedia. Kaifeng, Keynote lecture at the symposium New Media and the Turn of Contemporary Literary Theory.Organized by the Chinese Association of Sino-Foreign Literary Theory.

J. de Mul (2012, juni 28). Next Nature and the City. Bologna, . Invited lecture at the conference.'Nature and the City'. Organized by the Laboratory for Research on the City, the Italian Society for Aesthetics, in conjunction with the University of Bologna.

J. de Mul (2012, maart 23). Ways of Knowing. Princeton, Invited participant seminar organized by the Center of Theological Inquiry and the Institute of Advanced Study.

J. de Mul (2009, december 10). The work of art in the age of digital recombination. Beijing, Central Academy of the Fina Arts / CAFA Museum.

J. de Mul (2009, oktober 16). Database Architecture. Anthropological reflections on the art of the possible. Xiangfan, International congress City Public Art (7th Annual Meeting of the Asia Society of Art and Aesthetics).

J. de Mul (2009, december 13). Horizons of hermeneutics. Intercultural Hermeneutics in the Age of Globalizing. Beijing, International Conference Traditions in the Contemporary World. Beijing Normal University.

J. de Mul (2004, mei 14). Beauty in the age of (post)modern technologies. Wuhan, International Conference Beauty and the Way of Modern Life, Wuhan University.

J. de Mul (2004, januari 19). Virtual Residence. Sevilla, Symposium of the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (PTS) of the European Commission.

J. de Mul (2004, juni 30). Hybrid Architecture. Towards an ontology of mixed real/virtual spaces. Barcelona, International Congres Mind, the Land and the Social Meaning of Space, University of Barcelona.

J. de Mul (2000, augustus 22). The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction. Some Remarks on the Transformation of the Avant-garde. Seoul, International Colloqium "Art, Life, Culture" of the Korean Society of Aesthetics.